OS style cheat treats

Gingham_Ribbon

I bought an 'iced finger' for my son yesterday. It occured to me that cheap hot dog buns with icing on would be an okay treat now and again. I've not heard of these before, but I imagine they'd be okay with custard or jam inside too.

thriftlady_2

There's a recipe for iced fingers in Marguerite Patten's 'The Postwar Kitchen' where they're called Swiss buns (page 30). They are simply finger shaped rolls made from a portion of plain white bread dough. They're iced with water icing or chocolate water icing.

troll35

oooooo...I'd forgotten the sugar sandwiches, yummy scrummy!
Talking of sugar I used to have a bit sprinkled on my lettuce when I was a child (in the days when salad was seperate items of lettuce, cucumber and tomato and dressings were still foreign). I can remember being introduced to my cousin's fiance as "the person who taught me to put sugar on lettuce"......memories...memories

liney

Nan you used to make bread pudding (not bread and butter pud mind) with her stale bread and it was great! I cant find a recepie that tastes right though *sniff.

furndire

Pancakes - quick cheap and easy to make. A couple of eggs a cup of so of milk about half as much water as milk, pinch of salt, add plain flour whisking all the time. My granddaughter loves them. add jam, or pie filling golden syrup anything you can think of. We had banana & pear wizzed up in a Magic Bullet the other night - delicious - think we might have some tomorrow.

DPH1230

recovering_spendaholic wrote:

I went to university with a girl who used to eat KitKat sandwiches on buttered bread.

i have a friend who has frys mint cream on a buttered sandwich.disgusting.

catznine

thriftlady wrote:

Yorkshire pud- I remember seeing Nigella Lawson making it as a pud and serving it with golden syrup and whipped cream - looked absolutely gorgeous:D

This is really yummy,can highly recommend it!

I have to also admit to having cocoa and sugar sandwiches when I was a kid!:o

weegie_2

anyhoo, in my bid to get back on the old style wagon I hit ASDA today (with my list I may add, so nothing else went into the trolley) and got a few packs of smartprice digestives, choc sprinkles, smart price jam etc,icing sugar...blah blah - store cupboard essentials. Me and my son made digestive biscuits sandwiched together with jam and choc spread. Put some icing sugar on top and sprinkles.

And the boy was happy :-) God, did I feel like a good mum. We bonded over biscuits.....

Got a jar of smart price syrup as well. Gonna introduce him to the delights of that tomorrow.....

hex2

thriftlady wrote:

This isn't really a cheat but whilst I'm in a nostalgic frame of mind, my mum used to make 'bananas and cream' as a pud. This was a sliced banana in each person's bowl topped with sprinkle of raisins/sultanas, brown sugar and whipped cream. It was lush and I don't like bananas much. Unfortunately I haven't given my kids this as the ones who like bananas don't like cream and vice versa :rolleyes:

My dad used to make this for us minus sultanas but plus cinnamon or nutmeg. Used to be a big treat once we got older and could choose the proportions for ourselves. I mad it with homemade mayonnaise by accident once and it was just as nice.

Toatsed sandwiches made with HM jam are nice are lovely. Got banned from making them by my mother who thought they were vulgar, not sure what she would think of my gentle obsession with crisp butties. has to be warburtons, too much lurpak and walkers salted. Lovely.

HM popcorn is cheap and easy - ypu cna make a nice hard toffee sauce for it by boiling water and sugar to a light caramel colour. High treat in our house.

hazzie123

We always used to have chocolate cornflake cakes or made with rice krispies,whatever was in the cupboard.

I love banana splits,sliced banana length ways with a huge blob of ice cream down the middle and topped off with crushed nuts and hundreds and thousands.

I also like ovened banana with flake.Sliced banana length ways stuffed with a flake,wraped in foil and baked in the oven till all the flake melted.Mmmmm.You can also do these on a BBQ.

Jelly is also cheap and can be moulded into fun shapes.

I have yet to try a sugar sandwich,but I think I will seen as it gets great comments about it.